through maryland, mcclellan in fact moved fast that porter only caught up with mcclellan on september 14th with a division's of george morrell and george sykes. that was when he resumed complete command of the fifth corps. on that day, mcclellan went to signify victory over lee at south mountain. and then one at least, and in place victory at antietam. three days later. the bad news was that none of this was sufficient to dispel the clouds of mistrust generated by second bull run over either mcclellan or porter. mcclellan fell under immediate suspicion in washington for not pursuing after antietam with sufficient verve, as well as for showing noticeably little enthusiasm for lincoln's issuance of the preliminary emancipation proclamation on september 22nd. if porter, who was even more explicit in his criticism of the proclamation to mount marble on september 30th, fared worse. throughout the entire day at antietam, mcclellan held porter and the fifth corps in reserve at his headquarters at the pry house. and the optics of that reserve looked like nothing. so much as a conspiratorial r

i think he understood mcclellan actually well, although i do think mcclellan him at mountain and mcclellan was more than lee accustomed to it. mcclellan had always been very cautious in his operations. he was kind of a set piece sort of commander, although i do still think he believed that mcclellan would behave that way when he makes his decision to stand at sharpsburg. i think he realizes that, for one thing, mcclellan gets severely criticized. the why doesn't he? on september the 15th march from south mountain and attack robert e lee's and you can look at a map like i had up there and you can say it looks pretty easy to do but when you actually get down into the weeds weeds as a soldier would have to do. that was impossible mcclellan could not have attacked on september the 15th. if he had, it would have been a hasty attack with a very small part of his army. his army had two roads to move the entire army. so there was a big, gigantic traffic jam of the army as it tried to move there. he also to reconnoiter antietam creek. what crossings? the army draw so on where was the best place to

mcclellan knows that. particularly in the early movements of the army he had to give these men some seasoning. people often wonder why they don't marks 20 miles a day. can't marks 20 miles a day with men who have never done any marching. they need some seasoning. they will throw a lot of men into the battle of antietam. the experience is really painful for these groups. for the veteran corps of the army, these men who have been really demoralized with the defeat in the peninsula. now at second manassas. the mood of these man i think is reflected by alpha's williams. a general on the 12th army corps. he writes to his daughter. he says, i cannot tell you the future. if we fail now, the north has no hope, no safety that i can see. we have to win this. the confederate feel the same way. it sets up this epic campaign. now mcclellan and his campaign are a little bigger than leaves a little more complicated he has divided the army into two wings the right wing which is ambrose burnside. and the center wing. he ne

well, yes, between mcclellan and pope, but also between pope and mcclellan and not without reason. but that's in the book. and pope, finally, after reynolds, beseeches him, pope turns around and goes to the only officer in the army. the pope had appointed to command. and that was john buford. and he says, buford, you go out and see if the enemy's or left. and so buford assembled his brigade and headed out into the roads down here. but by the time he managed to do that, it was too late. the confederates would attack. now, getting back supporters attack here. the big one. as porters men fall back. mcdowell is on chin ridge here. he's got reynolds command out reynolds division is out here. he's got nathaniel mclain's men, which scott will talk about and has itn about beautifully up here on chin ridge. and that's about it. and at that moment, watching porter's men fall back and if the s ever any evidence that didn't understand the tactical situation, he promptly as porter's men fall back here, mcdowell orders reynolds men off of ten off of the ground south of the turnpike to come up he

as opposites, richmond, around richmond and mcclellan's army favorite pull away and ease mcclellan's way into the city of richmond. stan tells pope he's been called east to carry out these objectives and accept this time in the conversation stan stopped talking and they just look at each other. there is this long awkward silence. stan finally says you don't seem to approve the arrangements i have outlined for you. pope response, mr. secretary, i entirely concur in the wisdom of concentrating widely scattered horses in front of washington d.c. and using them generally as you proposed but i certainly do not view with any favor proposition to place me in command of them. the title of tonight's presentation as john popes reluctant rise for the last 18 months, he's been doing everything he can to rise through the ranks now he sang i don't want this command. stanton is annoyed to say the least. you should be flattered i brought you up here, but i'm offering you this command and popes as i am grateful but i don't want this command. pope is being reluctant to rise in this occasion. he says w

mcclellan had ambitious. he could have easily been present. i promise you he would not have pushed for emancipation. we know that very well that that wasn't what mcclellan was going to do. so it's it's extremely important. yes. this is it. this is the last question because i'm giving answers that are too low. okay. well, this is maybe this is a simple maybe not i would i was up on the battlefield the other day and we were standing in front of the first minnesota monument, and the guide was telling us about 250 men went forward. which monument i think it was the first minnesota the first minnesota. yeah and how they were asked to buy 15 minutes. so reinforcements could come up and 250 or so men went forward in 40 something came back and it always brings up this question. what made these soldiers do what they were doing. you know what our modern perspective. why would they go forward and you know, are they more afraid to not go than to go. but what's your take on? what makes these guys? i can't answer that. the

all of these things that mcclellan is not. the new york tribune would know that pope was not the type of man to sit and wait. he's a man of action, a man of bayonet. the philadelphia public ledgerwood right that pope would bring order out of chaos and the shenandoah valley would be ready at once for offensive service. pope takes command. and eventually pop is going to be called to different meetings with lincoln and various members of the cabinet and stanton. lincoln and stanton are looking for some advice from pope on how to help mcclelland down on the peninsula. mcclellan a screaming for reinforcement and lincoln and stanton are saying no. pope is saying, all of this is bad news down there on the peninsula. and basically tells lincoln instant and the reality of the situation. pope says, perhaps the biggest mistake occurring is mcclellan i's withdrawl towards the james river. and it's at this moment that if mcclellan is not ordered to halt his withdrawal, this i would prefer is a test. stanton. to return to the west. lincoln

of course, you could go up the peninsula, the way mcclellan did following these estuaries. and we have seen that grant is sending a minor expedition to futility here. he didn't want to go to futility, but they did. there are problems with this, and in fact, lincoln almost would not tolerate the main union force in virginia going down there again. the thing with mcclellan, it worked out so badly that it left northern virginia wide open. lincoln doesn't like that and really is just not going to let that happen. so that is a nonstarter for grant. now, what grant is going to do, he is going to use a combination of all three plans. his army is on the orange and alexandria railroad. when he starts out, lee is south of him. so grant is going to angle -- i will get oriented here, there we go. he is going to angle across the river there, angling to the southeast like that towards the lee is blocking his route over here. grant is going to go that way. if grand can get down there before lead a's, grant is going to get a head start. if he can get there before lead does, he will actuall

is george mcclellan. if that doesn't surprise you nothing about the civil war will surprise you.the grant fashion returned later when doing his around the world tour. the new york journalist john russell young accompanying him put a similar question to grant, who was the greatest of the confederate generals, joseph johnston which is worse and surprising. you almost had the sense that grant was doing a little tit for tat, i will disrespect you but what could have been an interesting relationship between former opponents never develops in that way and if anything in 1868-69, lee will end it's influence more to people who are challenging ulysses grant politically than otherwise. >> host: we could spend this entire two hours talking about robert e lee and his life but we want to talk about some of your other books. prior to "robert e. lee: a life," your previous book was "reconstruction: a concise history". that came out in 2018. from that book, quote, evenhe strongest measures taken by the us government during the war and reconstruction were deployed less with a view toward subjugat

so had mcclellan been elected there would have been negotiations.and no other way than with confederate independence. if confederate independence had occurred, there are a number of really unpleasant things that i think were very likely resulted. one is the united states would have continued to dissolved in secessions. once you have a successful succession there's no reason you should not have more. and it would not be difficult the pacific coast hiding off the northwestern states the great lakes era the great lakes area. hiding off itself into its own independent republic. leaving what would say pennsylvania, new york and new england as the united states. to become a useless tiny republic was no longer with united states business antic free trade zone for their meat trade wars. and if there had been that kind of what would've been that results when it came to world war i and world war ii? for there been a united states to intervene? no. and the result of that that's only one possibility. another possible result confederate independence as a wrinkle

that mcclellan moved with the of a glacier. he plucks out lincoln's comment that. mcclellan was an admirable engineer but had a special talent for the stationary engine. this kind of telegraphing the tenor of the issue, the of the in quotes are not by craft, but by something altering in historical monographs. imagination and. not suggesting that we allow authors simply imagine those people get to write fiction. but with those who have imagination and turn to history their gifts and always make us want to know more. i was most taken with his clara barton biography in 1990 for women of valor and indeed did valorize her. he perhaps her on a pedestal but he was also putting her on the map of the recovery of women's accomplish during the war. barton was the first american women whose house became a national park opened in 1974. this acknowledged her role as a founder of the american cross, but recently she's also been heralded in her postwar pioneering stage of recovering the bodies, recovering the dead. as the national park service

to measure from the shorter so i don't always really get that much time for myself long so much mcclellan griffin inside from iowa. but i know that school will also be an important part of my future. schuler and not necessarily what i'm doing right now. but my qualifications fluids carlos was muffled on richmond up to my aim is to do the final exams and then study at university internationally ansuka. and i'm sure i will need that in the course of my life. and so it's totally worth doing because there are no guarantees about what i'm doing right now. and the opportunities that i currently have explicitly meant as was meant gimler don't, will through a so to learn more mankato lucas cut novel time off with her friend and teammate live. it is important far away from family sal annoyed us. if it's me, it's totally new not to have them there. 247 will model. so of course i get a bit homesick sometimes. does this challenge my home the harbor? say so does not that i feel it all day long and had but before i go to sleep at night, when i'm tired are just generally really shattered credit going on

if george mcclellan had been elected as the 17th president of the united states seemed to me at leastthere's no question about that if not mcclellan himself certainly as party would have moved as quickly as possible to open negotiations and if those negotiationsss had begun by 1864 nobody is going to go back to shooting war. they were just up and too much bloodshed in and too much awareness and too much exhaustion paper -- people in the north would have elected mcclellan because they anticipate an extended war beyond that. had mcclellan been elected negotiations would have ended in no other way than with confederacyou and confederate independence had occurred than a number of really unpleasant things what i think very like he have resulted. one is that the united states would have continued to dissolve because once you have the successful secession there's no reason why there should be one it would not be difficult to see the pacific coast going into its own west coast republic. the northwestern states in the great lakes era in the great lakes area dividing itself into its own indepen

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he's also going to send another small army on a campaign somewhat similar to what we saw mcclellan do back in 62. that is approach richmond from the rivers going to off the map here. but the rivers well, yeah right here. james river right there now mcclellan, you know went up the york river and then followed the richmond new york river railroad for various reasons. this little peripheral campaign that grants planning the smaller army is going to go along the james river. and we'll be able to strike either for richmond. or for the smaller town of petersburg so what about petersburg well? in order for the confederates to feed lee's army. and the people of richmond they need supplies. supplies, come on. four railroads the confederates would have to keep at least two of those railroads. at least two in order to keep richmond fed to keep lee's army fed to maintain their position in virginia. okay, so they've got to keep two out of the four. three out of the four come together at petersburg. so if the union that union forced that subsidiary arm is smaller army. i'm going to tell you about l

and in spite of the mcclellan influence on its officers. ty, i think strong would have agreed that we should rename mcclellan's installation now, put it on the list. yet, strong still spoke about how meade allow the army to escape intact over the potomac river. newspapers brag far too loudly about our having broken the backbone of the rebellion, he wrote on august 8th, 1863. the vertebrae of southern trees can still come here, as we may yet learn to our terrible cost. especially if lee reinforces himself with the debris of rebellion from that southwest. we got away! that's the bottom line in the end, for george template and strong. as it was for abraham lincoln. on july 14th, in a written written but never sent to meade, although he knew he thought -- the president, affirmed i am very, very grateful for you for the magnificent success you gave the cause of the country at gettysburg. the aftermath of the battle, however, left lincoln depressed, his word, not mine. at the seeming lack of aggressiveness on the part of meade and his fellow unio

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their own savings most were acquitted. nevertheless, the trend has been met with a divided response. mcclellan you had the right to do it. don't you have every right to do it? a udall? i fully support you. huh. you them against law. i'm against it. it leads to vigilante justice that out. there was still money in the banks yanine. but if everyone does it, it will all clamp salmon. heck, out of it, public and efficient bankers also warn against taking the law into one's own hands . they blame politicians for running lebanon into the ground, and say their hands are tied. if those people who are throwing these acquisitions can tell me where this, the gosh, one is a go and get the, the distributed to the pals. oops. no. there is no liquidity in the banking sector, is a simple overview of by sam al shake used the money for his father's operation after a full, to buy a walking aid and a new hospital bed. now he dreams of a new home for the family and wants to get all his deposits back at gunpoint again if necessary, even if things don't go so smoothly the 2nd time around and some football news one is

so much. mcclellan griffin inside from iowa. but i know that school will also be an important part of my future. sure . and not necessarily what i'm doing right now, but my qualifications for it's called us was a muffled in richmond. up from my aim is to do the final exams and then study at university internationally ansuka. and i'm sure i will need that in the course of my life. and so it's totally worth doing because there are no guarantees about what i'm doing right now. in the opportunities that i currently have explicitly meant as was meant, dim ladon will through it, will to learn more mankato lucas cut novel time off with her friend and teammate live. it is important far away from family sal, paranoid of 50. it's me, it's totally new. not to have them there. 247 will model. so of course i get a bit homesick sometimes. so does this county my home be happy with me? so it's not that i feel it all day long, unheard. but before i go to sleep at night, when i'm tired or just generally really shattered, credit going on down, it

there's really occupation forces are turning our lives into a nightmare. mcclellan high lair. i will not at all, this is the 1st time for me to travel abroad and to be on the plane. so i have mixed feelings of excitement thrill and fear. but it is also the 1st time for palestinian children to take part in this event. so i am excited to be the 1st to represent palestine. it is an unprecedented opportunity on laptop i was a kid actor. i will invite the other teams to come and visit. if not, we will make friends who will establish contacts and relationships. and one day in the future, when we will meet again. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, russian president vladimir putin, as described, the barrels of miss on fire on ukrainian cities as a response to terrorist attacks on russian territory. at least 10 people have died . putin warned there could be an even tougher response to come up to you to pursue cleanable of nevada. was it is impossible not to respond this morning. a mess of strikes took place on air, sea, and land against energy and military targets against uk

this could mean that grant was changing his base to harrison's landing, just like mcclellan did two years earlier. he could be re-supplied for another movement against richmond south of the river, north of the river, rather. all of those federals boarding boats might be some of these regiments that had their terms of enlistment expire and were heading home thousands were doing that. we meanwhile, smic 18th corps moved up the james river and prepared to disembark at bermuda hundred. only the supply wagons that were guarded by the black division of the ninth corps and problems discovering their designated crossing point down there on the chickahominy at kohl's ferry was impractical. they had to move back up to a place called windsor shaves in order to try to get across. they would be delayed, everybody else had achieved a spectacular logistical achievement. grant had no doubt. stolen a march on robert e. lee. he simply had to approach petersburg, overwhelm a line of thin defenders that were supposed to be around the city and then reap the benefits. forcing lee to fight for his communication

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which everybody got a kick out of that henry hallock and general mcclellan and general don carlos buell. conversed back and forth on the telegraph for hours during the battle at fort donelson and that they in fact issued all the orders and dispositions that led to grant's victory. which of course is nonsense? and one one observer commented on the nonsense by saying i should rejoice at the news that general mcclellan had done any fighting even if it was just with a telegraph battery. let alone a confederate battery. in that asked, how are these wires connected with grant's headquarters in the field? well, of course they weren't but later in the war. telegraph lines would run right to the army headquarters in the field in order to provide the fastest possible transmission of information to and from washington. grant made a good deal of thunder and lightning of his own saved this commentator. he carries very little for the electricity of the telegraph batteries. that's not true. he depended on the telegraph greatly. you're all familiar. i'm sure with the so-called great locomotive chase in

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he mcclellan lost some 16,000 on the peninsula. there were at least 16,000 casualties in the army of the potomac alone at fredericksburg and a similar number in chancellorsville. and as we all know by march the lincoln administration and congress managed to get through a draft why because who would want to join the army? nobody it has been nothing but a slaughterhouse. and there's been nothing gained. and so on the eve of gettysburg the white house was concerned about riots breaking out in the streets. and then suddenly a victory is given to them in the largest land engagement ever fought on the north american continent. and yet and yet after that. what happens? george meade is accused of not following the enemy. george meads accused of not having the moral courage to make decisions himself. george meade is accused of not attacking the enemy along the downsville line near hagerstown on the 12th and 13th of july. lacking the moral courage to do that instead. he called a council of war. and that's how mead has been remembered. i reme

some other feeds in the peninsula campaign including battling near white house landing firing on mcclellan's army. the peninsular campaign of seven day battle as a testing ground for pelham. how does he and his battery fit into the calvary and into the rest of his army and what are some tactics and what are some things that work with his guns on these battlefields? at the battle of second manassas in 1852 something remarkable happens. stonewall jackson gives john pelham permission to go anywhere advantageous on the field. they tell him he can go anywhere he wants on the battlefield this rather surprising to see this rising trust the jackson is placing in pelham. on the screen there's a quote of jackson and he says if i had pelham on each flank i could whip the world. this is help much admiration jackson has for this young artillery commander. the antietam campaign and the battle over sharpsburg i'm not sure if it's clear on the map but we will try to make it work here. you will see stuart and the symbol for the cannons. stuart is overseeing the artillery over the battle bailed -- days but th

and it was paired with wounded warrior veterans, first responders with severe ptsd, and officer mcclellan and certified service dogs but leaves them in a facility dog role, because they are used to help multiple people instead of just one. >> now they are all sleeping, but tell me about your dog. >> i'm with the southern connecticut state university police department. he works in areas of support for our students, victim services, community outreach, and officer wellness. speak a lot about your beautiful dog? >> this is a female lab, sister to bear over there, same role, helping victims, police officers, first responders. great touch of the community. >> what is it about these beautiful dogs and their temperament, and how good they are to people? >> you can see it as we walked through the streets of new york city and people gravitate towards them. they have that unspoken easy way about them. >> i'm going over to this one, what is her name? >> this is indy, he is a male. >> is it okay if i pet? indy is the only one awake. >> we work day shift. i've had indy going on for years now. >> how c

it happened at one o'clock this afternoon on peggy lane, the tree trimming crews with mcclellan hannee, a division of bartlett tree experts, the city of san jose is taking the next steps in clearing out another homeless encampment. many of the residents moved from the now cleared guadalupe guardians to the columbus park site. yesterday said the guadalupe and came in was unsafe because it was in the flight path of mineta international airport of the city now plans to have columbus park cleared out by the middle of next month. an emergency hearing today in san francisco and mayor london breeds practice of obtaining updated resignation letters from some commissioners . the issue came to light when police commissioner max carter over stone spoke out. the mayor's office said it was meant to expedite removing someone who refused to resign. but the city attorney's office said with the mayor was doing is unenforceable . the mayor's office has since ended the practice and you are watching ktvu. thanks to news here at 6 30, the united states supreme court hearing arguments today on a california

general mcclellan landed down here in, i can't see, i can't read, the foreman row area. and we're gonna march army on north american soil to peninsula and attack and take richmond. part three of the aconda plan. general johnston ordered delaying measureg the peninsula, primarily right here at yorktown, the magruder line, to build up defensive fortifications to delay or defeat teral forces. but as the federal forces started to pilthe confederates knew that th just a delaying act givthe confederate government and the milind the high command more time to build defenses around richmond. somhe measures the confederate army ere aker guns, just logs, like lincoln logs, just point them out, and so, the federals looked through binoculars and think that our cannon, just have a parade here, march the men secretly over here, have a parade there. sort of create noise, the federal thought they were facing a larger army. they received intelligence on the morning of may 5th, 1862, the federals would launched a major assault. and the defenders knew they could not resist that assault, so

troubles ahead with ambitious cabinet officers the "team of rivals" and political generals like mcclellan and others. no doubt a relief to him to hear that here was an officer at least who stayed above the fray untested by the adulation of the crowd or political office. later that year's farragut did do his duty on the seat when he charged into the bay in mobile alabama. most of you know the story. it was halfway into the bay when there was a muffled thump and to come so reared up out of the water felt back in and rose up the propellers still spending and shot down like an arrow taking most of its crew with it. sunk by a confederate torpedo perhaps designed by hunter davidson. when that happened the ship directly and farragut the brooklyn stopped and then it began to back down. the ships are in a line ahead formation with the lead ships began backing down you can imagine the chaos likely to ensue and this of course is when farragut took matters in hand in order to avoid having to collapse like an accordion. he ordered the hartford to veer out of line steamed past the brooklyn directly int